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The Head of Bhairava is a 16th-century mask from the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. Made of gilt copper with rock crystal and paint during Nepal's Malla period, it depicts Bhairava, the destructive and terrifying manifestation of the the Hindu god Shiva. The mask is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.Photograph credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art
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